Where's The Death Penalty When It's Needed?

Truthfully, as you can see by my headline I am all for the death penalty in this country, particularly when the crimes of violence involve innocent children as this one below does. Of coarse I'm not talking about the brutal in vitro murders of 50 million children since Roe V Wade became a gruesome reality in this world, that's a whole other story for another post at another time.

However in many murder cases and trials there are always exceptions to the rule, and when talking about exterminating the lives of fellow human beings, it's hard to administer justice fairly and accurately when the rulings rely on the testimony of other frail and faulty human beings like this particular case did as do most others that involve circumstancial eveidence only.

This one was hard to call because in the murder of a young girl by microwaving there was an 8 year old "witness" who claimed that he saw another young boy alone with the  baby enter the apartment with the microwave as opposed to the mother who was ultimately charged with the crime and given life mostly because of the testimony of the child.

It's a hard call to make and cases like this one do expose the main flaw with the death penalty, human beings deciding who gets it and who doesn't. That's no doubt a big problem and it isn't ever going away until some scientist finally develops a foolproof lie detector test that can infallibly determine such deceptions 100 % of the time. Just imagine the savings to society in dollars and lives should such an infallible test ever become available, rendering all law enforcement and it's components unneeded and unnecessary.

That would be Utopia.

Mom gets life in prison for microwaving baby -

CNN.com: "DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A woman has been sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole for killing her baby daughter in a microwave oven.
China Arnold was convicted for killing her baby by burning her in the microwav

Twenty-eight-year-old China Arnold chose not to be in the courtroom for Monday's sentencing. Arnold was convicted of aggravated murder in the 2005 death of month-old daughter Paris Talley.

She was spared the death penalty because jurors could not reach a consensus on the punishment. It was Arnold's second trial; the first ended in a mistrial when new witnesses surfaced.

Defense attorney Jon Paul Rion has asked for a third trial, saying a former cellmate who said Arnold confessed has now changed her story.

Arnold was accused of killing month-old Paris Talley in 2005. A judge declared a mistrial in February, and the retrial began August 18. The jury found Arnold guilty Friday of aggravated murder.

During the trial, an 8-year-old boy said he saw another boy walk into the kitchen of a nearby apartment with the baby, heard the microwave go on and then later saw the burned baby in the microwave."

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